Duchampiana [videorecording] : chess / Shigeko Kubota. [between 1970 and 1975]

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Duchampiana [videorecording] : chess / Shigeko Kubota. [between 1970 and 1975]

This component of Kubota's Video chess sculpture (1975) is a color-synthesized video of her black-and-white photographs of Marcel Duchamp and John Cage playing chess in Reunion, a performance conceived and organized by Cage in 1968. The soundtrack is a recording of music generated by the original Reunion performance.

1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) (22 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. original.

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Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968

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Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (French:28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art, and Dada, although he was careful about his use of the term Dada and was not directly associated with Dada groups. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of...

Cage, John, 1912-1992

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John Cage was born in Los Angeles in 1912. He studied composition with Richard Buhlig, Henry Cowell, Adolph Weiss, and Arnold Schoenberg. In 1938 he began working as an accompanist for dance and a teacher at the Cornish School of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. It was here that he first met the dancer Merce Cunningham, with whom he would have a lifelong working relationship. Together they were responsible for a number of radical innovations in musical and choreographic compositions, such as the...

Kubota, Shigeko 1937-

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Cross, Lowell

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Mumma, Gordon, 1935-

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Tudor, David, 1926-1996

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American composer and performer of piano, multi-media and electronic music. By 1950 Tudor established his reputation as the leading exponent of the piano music of the American and European avante-gardes. From the description of David Tudor Papers, 1943-1989 (bulk 1950-1965). (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80965755 David Tudor was an American pianist and electronic music composer. From the description of Recordings of David Tudor performances [sou...